Product Description: McIntosh is set in the Florida town of that name lying between Gainesville and Ocala on U.S. 441. To those who visit its antique shops or its annual harvest festival in search of a past that never was, the town and its people appear bucolic, ignorant, and dull...read more

Product Description: Savannas cover approximately half of the African land surface and one fifth of the land surface of the world. They are one of the most important, but least understood terrestrial ecosystems. They are the basis of the African livestock industry and the wildlife they support is of key importance in bringing in tourists...read more

Product Description: Robert J. Scholes explores the spiritual side of life, from the dark places of the minds of murderers to the wonders of the mystical experiences of common folk.

Product Description: The ideas in this work are based upon language, speech, and writing. Some of the topics are a brief survey of scripts, punctuation, words in speech and writing, and spoken and written languages. At the end of the book is a series of illustrations showing symbol language of the Lord's Prayer, depicted in Chinese, Hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Thai, Greek, Latin, Russian, gothic, German and Anglo-Saxon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992...read more

Product Description: This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contexts of literacy. The work for this book was generated in order to focus on studies of the acquisition and impact of literacy on traditional assertions of linguistic analysts...read more

Product Description: First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.